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The story of two Irish-American families. It begins in Ireland in 1920 when Capt. Sheridan of the IRA has an affair with Hadley Winslow, wife of a Boston financier. To get him off her back she betrays him to the British. He escapes, emigrates to America and comes calling.
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"One night Mary Pat's teenage daughter Jules stays out late and doesn't come home. That same evening, a young Black man is found dead, struck by a subway train under mysterious circumstances. The two events seem unconnected. But Mary Pat, propelled by a desperate search for her missing daughter, begins turning over stones best left untouched--asking questions that bother Marty Butler, chieftain of the Irish mob, and the men who work for him, men who...
63) Dead heat
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The U.S. Senator from Massachusetts decides to run in the Boston Marathon, and snipping and death threats follow.
65) Hardware
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Boston taxi driver Carlotta Carlyle, a pistol-packing, six-foot-one redhead, investigates a series of robberies threatening to close the G & W cab company. With the help of an ex-Mafia friend, Sam Gianelli, who is a computer hobbyist, Carlotta invests in a computer and solves the robberies. By the author of Snapshot.
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"The beautifully ornate reading room at the Boston Public Library is completely silent one weekday morning, until a woman's terrified scream echoes through the room. Security guards immediately appear and instruct everyone inside to stay put until they determine there is no threat. While they wait for the all-clear, four strangers who had been sitting in the reading room get to chatting and quickly become friendly. Harriet, Marigold, Whit, and Caine...
67) All in one piece
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From the author of Now You See Her comes a second compelling installment in the new series featuring psychic-sleuth Regina Cutter.
68) Fed up
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Boston foodie and amateur detective Chloe Carter has enough on her plate without someone dying on a reality TV show after dining on her chef boyfriend's lamb le poison Chloe Carter is ready for her fifteen minutes of vicarious fame. Her boyfriend, Josh Driscoll, is competing with two other chefs to win Chefly Yours, a cable reality series. The show takes place at an upscale market, where a random shopper is selected to be the lucky recipient of...
69) The strangler
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Before the New York Times bestselling success of Defending Jacob, William Landay wrote this widely acclaimed second novel of crime and suspense, which was named a Favorite Crime Novel of the Year by the Los Angeles Times and several other newspapers.
Boston, 1963. Meet the charming, brawling Daley brothers. Joe is a cop whose gambling habits have dragged him down into the city’s underworld. Michael...
Boston, 1963. Meet the charming, brawling Daley brothers. Joe is a cop whose gambling habits have dragged him down into the city’s underworld. Michael...
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"It's December in Boston, and Spenser is busy planning the menu for Christmas dinner when he's confronted in his office by a young boy named Slide. Homeless and alone, Slide has found refuge with an organization named Street Business, which gives shelter and seeks job opportunities for the homeless and lost. Slide's mentor, Jackie Alvarez, is being threatened, and Street Business is in danger of losing its tenuous foothold in the community, turning...
71) Painted ladies
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Called upon by The Hammond Museum and renowned art scholar Dr. Ashton Prince, Boston PI Spenser accepts his latest case: to provide protection during a ransom exchange-money for a stolen painting. The case becomes personal when Spenser fails to protect his client and the valuable painting remains stolen.
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Master of new noir Dennis Lehane magnificently evokes the dignity and savagery of working-class Boston in Darkness, Take My Hand, a terrifying tale of redemption.
Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro's latest client is a prominent Boston psychiatrist, running scared from a vengeful Irish mob. The private investigators know about cold-blooded retribution. Born and bred on the mean streets of blue-collar Dorchester, they've seen the darkness that
...73) Moonlight mile
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Amanda McCready was four years old when she vanished from a Boston neighborhood twelve years ago. Desperate pleas for help from the child's aunt led investigators Kenzie and Gennaro to take on the case. The pair risked everything to find the young girl, only to orchestrate her return to a neglectful mother and a broken home. Now Amanda is sixteen and gone again. A stellar student, brilliant but aloof, she seemed destined to escape her upbringing....
74) Hard knocks
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Jack Reilly, a dodgy ex-Boston cop, is trying to make ends meet as a PI. When a client is killed execution-style, Reilly finds himself in a whole world of pain. Someone wants him dead - but why? To find out, Reilly must weed through thirty years of duplicity, corruption, and killing among politicians dirtier than mobsters and criminals nobler than senators.
75) The balloon man
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At a wedding in Boston, sleuth Max Bittersohn faces several mysteries. A hot air balloon crashes into the tent, leaving a corpse, an attempt is made to steal a Rolls Royce and among the wedding gifts is the bride's stolen necklace.
76) Boston
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A wealthy dowager confronts the brutality of the class system and fights for justice in this dramatic account of the Sacco and Vanzetti case
With the publication of The Jungle in 1906, Upton Sinclair became the literary conscience of America. Two decades later, he brought his singular artistry and steadfast commitment to the cause of social equality to bear on the case of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian anarchists...
With the publication of The Jungle in 1906, Upton Sinclair became the literary conscience of America. Two decades later, he brought his singular artistry and steadfast commitment to the cause of social equality to bear on the case of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian anarchists...
77) The tea chest
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"Boston, 1773: Emma Malcolm's heart belongs to Noah Winslow. But her father has promised her to Samuel Clarke, a sadistic man. After Emma is drawn into the Boston Tea Party, Samuel blackmails her. Emma realizes she must protect those she loves, even if it means becoming Samuel's wife. Present Day:Lieutenant Hayley Ashworth is determined to be the first woman in the Navy SEALs. When an unexpected encounter with the man she once loved leads to the discovery...
78) Dark rites
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A series of bizarre assaults is mystifying Boston police: an unknown attacker is viciously beating random strangers and leaving a note quoting an old warning about witchcraft. History professor Alex Maple was one of the victims, and now he's gone missing. Vickie Preston is certain that someone has taken her friend for malicious purposes. She's having blood-drenched visions that seem to be staining her waking life, and the escalating attacks suggest...
79) The snake tattoo
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What do a privileged Emerson student and a hooker from the Combat Zone have in common? They are both missing--and both areta Carlyle in her Boston cab!
80) Natural causes
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“Reinvents the medical thriller.”—Library Journal
Dr. Sarah Baldwin races to a Boston hospital with a young woman whose normal labor has suddenly become a matter of life and death. As she struggles to save both mother and baby, she doesn't know that two other women have already died under horrifying identical circumstances. And so begins Sarah's own nightmare, as she learns that the prenatal herbal vitamins she prescribed...
Dr. Sarah Baldwin races to a Boston hospital with a young woman whose normal labor has suddenly become a matter of life and death. As she struggles to save both mother and baby, she doesn't know that two other women have already died under horrifying identical circumstances. And so begins Sarah's own nightmare, as she learns that the prenatal herbal vitamins she prescribed...
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